Keith Loke Email & Phone Number

Keith Loke is complex banking and finance partner at HWL Ebsworth. He leads the firm’s national energy, resources, transport and infrastructure finance practices.Keith specialises in structured financing and funding. He has substantial experience and particular expertise in bespoke public finance, project finance, real estate finance, corporate finance, trade and asset finance, acquisition finance, and debt restructuring. He has advised on some of the most groundbreaking and intricate financings and workouts in the market. His longstanding clients include governments, global banks, investment funds, and major multinational and domestic corporations.Keith delivers tailored advice and solutions to senior and subordinated lenders, sponsors and borrowers on large-scale financing, funding, refinancing and restructuring transactions, often featuring novel cross-border multi-tiered multi-sourced debt and equity funding structures. He is adept at guiding clients through complicated intercreditor, security, government co-funding, multipartite and other commercial arrangements.Keith has deep and unique experience advising governments on their most complex public financing and funding matters. He also advises global banks and investment funds on highly sensitive multidisciplinary strategic legal matters.Keith sits on the Australian project finance committee of the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association (APLMA).Keith’s market-leading experience includes advising:∙ MyState Bank on the financing, regulatory capital, securitisation, hedging and capital integration aspects of its proposed $12.5b merger with Auswide Bank;∙ WICET on the syndicated project financing, development and restructuring of the $4.3b Wiggins Island Coal Export Terminal;∙ GE on the syndicated project financing, development and restructuring of the $1.2b Worsley Multi-Fuel Cogen Power Station;∙ Masdar, John Laing, Hitachi Zosen Inova and Tribe on the syndicated project financing of the $511m Rockingham WTE Facility;∙ international banks on the syndicated project financings of the Langer Heinrich and Kayelekera Uranium Mines;∙ NSW, QLD and TAS Governments on the financing, securities and complex multipartite aspects of various long-term structured essential services arrangements involving the acquisition and supply of aircraft;∙ NSW and ACT Governments on their procurement of whole-of-government banking and payment services;∙ JPMorgan on its financing of Sankaty’s $1.9b acquisition of GE Capital Australia; and∙ a global bank on its capital call facility to a US$1.5b sovereign fund.

Listed skills include Project Finance, Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, Legal Advice, and 30 others.